[wellylug] Debian vs Debian Woody

[Steven Mulvay]

Hi again Rik,
If I did start off with Woody and then I did find that I wanted to run the latest version of some particular packages, couldn't I just go to the 3rd party websites of those packages, download the latest version and then run the latest version under my Woody OS? For example, can't I run the latest version of VLC (downloaded from VLC's website) under Woody? Or does that cause kernel incompatibilities?

Cheers,
Steve 

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:33:07 +1300, wellylug-request at lists.wellylug.org.nz wrote:
> Starting off with Woody is fine. Like I said, it's a solid OS with 
> great packing and update tools. Like Grant said, you will certainly 
> find that you want to upgrade the distribution to Sarge or even Sid in 
> order to obtain certain packages that you want to use. Normally, this 
> is because Debian Stable uses quite old software releases in order to 
> build its packages. This isn't a problem if you want stability - hence 
> the name Stable, duh! But if you want features, you may well find 
> yourself living with Sarge